User Profiles
Colin Walters
walters at verbum.org
Thu Nov 19 21:16:56 UTC 2009
2009/11/19 Máirín Duffy <mairin at linuxgrrl.com>:
>
> B) Most frequently-used applications list (should include rich client /
> desktop apps AND web applications.) Mugshot used to have a tool that
> collected this data, and I think it's in gnome-shell now.
It is, yep. It would be at least a few days of work to have this
appear in GNOME 2 as well, but possible.
> Is there any
> way we could allow users to opt-in to this sort of application usage
> data collection?
I think changing the current firstboot smolt screen to be "Join Fedora
Feedback" with an option set like:
[ ] Send all automatic feedback to Fedora
[ ] Send hardware profile (more information)
[ ] Send application usage (more information)
[ ] Send crash reports (more information)
[ ] Send computer performance data (more information)
[ ] Send ...
The client parts of this are not too hard; the Fedora Infrastructure
part is harder, last I talked with them about something like this they
had a lot of concerns about storage space, etc. In the big picture
all of infrastructure at the moment is contributor-scale and not
user-scale, and that's a big leap even if we're saying the user is
likely to be a contributor.
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